Staff Software Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Get to know Okta<br><br></strong></span>Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology, anywhere, on any device or app. Our flexible and neutral products, Okta Platform and Auth0 Platform, provide secure access, authentication, and automation, placing identity at the core of business security and growth.<br><br>At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. <br><br>Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.</p></div><p>Okta is the identity standard. The Okta Identity Cloud is an independent and neutral platform that securely connects the right people to the right technologies at the right time. We help organizations do two things - secure and manage their extended enterprise, and transform their customers’ experiences. With over 15,800 customers globally, 7000+ app integrations, and well over 200 million registered users, we are only getting started.</p> <h3><strong>About the Team</strong></h3> <p>Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like distributed cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, internal tooling for developer support, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Role:</strong></p> <p>This is an opportunity for an experienced Backend engineer to join our growing Core Platform team based out of Bengaluru. In this role, you will get to work with highly skilled and talented engineers throughout the organization to build and manage some of the critical platform services powering Okta’s products and infrastructure. This role requires a blend of high-level architectural thinking and hands-on execution to build resilient, high-performance backend services. We are not only passionate about building services but operating them at scale, making them resilient to provide a seamless service to our customers.</p> <p>You'll be joining a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company that is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.</p> <p><br><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform on AWS)</li> <li>Drive evaluation, development and roll out of new common microservices</li> <li>Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business.</li> <li>Help with design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standard by writing unit and functional tests.</li> <li>Be part of a structured on-call roster, assist with monitoring, troubleshooting of services and frameworks the team owns</li> <li>Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers</li> <li>Help with mentoring new engineering hires and interns</li> </ul> <p><strong>Minimum required knowledge, skills and abilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology s ... (truncated, view full listing at source)